Install Kolourpaint on Raspberry Pi

Kolourpaint

An easy-to-use paint program.
KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and simple image editing tasks.
Features:

  • Support for drawing various shapes: lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals and polygons
  • Curves, lines and text
  • Colour picker
  • Selections
  • Rotation, monochrome, redaction and other advanced effects
    To run: Menu -> Graphics -> Kolourpaint
    To run in terminal: kolourpaint

Fortunately, Kolourpaint is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Kolourpaint.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Trixie.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Kolourpaint will run on either PiOS 32-bit or 64-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Kolourpaint

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Kolourpaint.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Creative Arts category.

Now scroll down to find Kolourpaint in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Kolourpaint for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot, theofficialgman, and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io